Book Review

This will be a useful and highly relevant resource for independent prescribers, whether they are clinicians considering a refresher or students/newly qualified NMPs who need a reference text. The chapters are helpfully structured around the Royal Pharmaceutical Society competencies, with the information also applied to nursing professional standards. This additional layer of integration means that the competency framework can be considered in a profession-specific way, facilitating understanding through the lens of the examples and cases provided. While the various nursing disciplines are used in the examples, the perspective can often be applicable to other prescribers.

Constructed by multi-professional experts, there are eight chapters plus a glossary, covering the central areas in prescribing, bar rational decision making and therapeutics of the drugs themselves. Given that the chapters are all structured around the competencies, all the principles of prescribing practice are covered in detail. This proves an effective layout, which is consistent through each chapter, guiding the reader from the key/underpinning principles(s) and then into exploration of the topic.